Freddy Martinez, a Philadelphia Eagles fan, started the post on Change.org because he was "having an increasingly hard time supporting" the NFL when domestic abusers are allowed to play professional football. There were more than 35,000 co-signers overnight and the number is now over 46,000 as of 1 p.m. Wednesday.

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"With the evidence publicly released, the next step is absolutely clear: Greg Hardy must go right now," Martinez wrote.

For the most part, Hardy has remained silent on the issue, but he changed his Twitter profile to read: "Innocent until proven guilty-lack of knowledge & information is just ignorance-the unjust/prejudicial treatment of diff categories of people is discrimination."

He later updated the profile to quote the late rapper Tupac Shakur's "Hail Mary." It read: "Come with me Hail Mary Run quick see What do we have here now wana be my ride or die La la la la la la (SuperBlockParty)."